UFC fighter who was missing since 2020 announces unexpected octagon return

UFC fighter Lyman Good has unexpectedly vowed to make a return in 2023. MMA journalist Alex Behunin recently shared a list of UFC fighters who have been inactive, urging them to make a return.

Behunin received an unexpected reply from Good, who vowed to make a return. 'Cyborg' wrote:

"Coming back this year"

The list shared by Behunin includes the names of other promising UFC fighters like Gavin Tucker, Juan Espino, Tatiana Suarez, Gregor Gillespie, Germaine de Randamie and David Teymur. Like most others on the list, Lyman Good has been inactive for over two years since dropping a unanimous decision against Belal Muhammad in June 2020.

Good has gone back and forth in his UFC career, fighting only six times since joining the promotion back in 2015. The former Bellator welterweight champion, who holds a 3-3 UFC record, apparently spent his two-year hiatus shooting movies.

'Cyborg' made an appearance on Tyrese Gibson starrer Rogue Hostage and also on Julianne Moore starrer Apple TV mini-series Lisey's Story last year.

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Lyman Good was the first active UFC fighter to test positive for COVID-19

Lyman Good was scheduled to fight Belal Muhammad at UFC 249, which was originally scheduled to go down in April 2020. The card was eventually postponed to May as the coronavirus pandemic rapidly took over the entire world.

But Good had withdrawn from his bout against Muhammad even before the card was postponed, citing an undisclosed injury. 'Cyborg' later revealed that he had tested positive for coronavirus but chose not to reveal it in an attempt to prevent any hysteria.

The UFC fighter also said that his girlfriend and his coach at Tiger Shulmann’s MMA, all tested positive for the virus. Good said in an interview with ESPN:

"Although I said it was due to an injury, it was actually because I had tested positive for COVID-19. We didn’t wanna feed into the fear, the imminent fear that’s going on in society right now. There’s a pandemic, it is a real thing happening, but I didn’t wanna stoke the flames, so to speak, and influence the fear factor of other people."

Watch Lyman Good's interview below: